With a win that began to take shape from the 14th minute, the United States Under-20 team imposed its dominance 4-0 against its counterpart from New Zealand and advanced to the quarterfinals in the World Cup of the category that will take place. celebrated in Argentina.
The North Americans once again showed that they are serious contenders for the title by achieving their four wins in four games to be the only Concacaf team still alive in the tournament.
Owen Wolff started the goal festival from outside the area in minute 14. The last three goals came in the last half hour of the match through Cade Cowell (m.61), Justin Che (m.75) and Rokas Pukstas ( m.82).
The dominance of the team led by Mikey Varas, of Chilean descent, was today from start to finish, in the penultimate game of the tournament that is played at the “Malvinas Argentinas” stadium in Mendoza.
And he showed it immediately with a shot from the edge of the area by Owen Wolff, which at first seemed harmless but was met with a late response from Kees Sims.
Although New Zealand tried to take the initiative to go looking for equality, some time after the resumption of the match, Cowell received in the area and took advantage of the passivity of the Oceanic defense to make it 2-0.
Already with the scoreboard in favor of the United States by a margin of two goals, New Zealand gave up trying and Che scored the third by shooting a loose ball in the six-yard box; towards the end Pukstas, who had just come off the bench, rose higher than anyone to execute an unappealable header from Brandan Craig’s cross to continue on the way to the quarterfinals of the competition.
Now the United States will have the possibility of facing the winner of the match between Uruguay and The Gambia who will play their round of 16 match on June 1.
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